..The actor and director Felix Basch took acting lessons at the Burgtheater
and got his first theater engagement in the play "Wilhelm Tell" in 1904.
After a tour through Russia in 1912 followed engagements at the Theater
des Westens and at the Metropol-Theater.

Also in 1915 he shot his first movie as a director called "Der Herr
Herr Baron" (15) and he soon became an experienced expert of his line.
In the next years he concentrated on his work as a director, only sometimes
he also appeared as an actor in his own movies or took part as an actor
in movies of other directors.

In the 20's he founded the filmcompany "Kronen-Film GmbH" and together
with his wife and actress Grete Freund the "Basch-Freund-Film,
Berlin".
The 20's constituted the height of his career and he worked together
with nearly all stars of that time. To these movies belong "Mascotte" (20),
"Hannerl und ihre Liebhaber" (21), "Die Geliebte Roswolskys" (21), "Fräulein
Julie" (21), "Der Strom" (22), "Sodoms Ende" (22), "Schicksal" (24), "Der
Mann seiner Frau" (25), "Der Sohn des Hannibal" (26), "Eins + Eins = Drei"
(27) and "Mascottchen" (29).

The 30's with its turbulent political incidents impeded his career too.
After the movies "Zwei Krawatten" (30) and "Seine Freundin Annette" (30)
other works failed to come and he emigrated together with Grete Freund
to the USA in 1933. When he didn't find the the working circumstances he
was used to, he went to Paris via England and wrote scripts which weren't
realised.
When the war broke out in Europe he went back to the USA again and
inaugurated the restaurant "Grete's Viennese" in New York in 1940. When
his plan to inaugurate a restaurant in Hollywood too failed he turned to
the film business again. But the working system for American movies gave
him problems - like for most of the film working emigrants.
In the following years he impersonated many support roles in B movies.
To his movies of the 40's belong "Reunion in France" (42), "Destination
Unknown" (42), "Chetniks" (43), "Hitler - Dead or Alive" (43), "Mission
to Moscow - Botschafter in Moskau" (43), "Appointment in Berlin" (43),
"The Cross of Lorraine" (43), "The Hitler Gang" (44) and "The Mask of Dimitrios"
(44).

After a transfusion with contaminated blood (hepatitis B) he died at
the age of 58.
His cousin was the famous tenor Richard Tauber.